nice...

Originally Posted by Maede

Just finished mine after 4 hours (ironically, I got the last 3 in a 30min span). There are apparently 11 locations, but I found trees at the following three:
-Death's Approach (1504, 2815)
Granitewood Haunt (1434, 3096)
Auld Warden (1249, 3027)

Good luck. This one is a pain.

A) all you did was copy someone elses cords, and B) Auld Warden is 3000,3900 range... so these cords do nothing.

I know, I know.. it is just a quest, just a game, but to make a quest so utterly frustrating and demoralising is just bad planning. I hope they fix it soon because I am unable to finish it, meaning I cannot complete the quest it is part of.

Tried three times during the day, spending over 20 minutes each time, probably more searching or camping the tree spots, but there were just so many people around that it made it impossible to get anywhere. We tried grouping up, but because of the number of people you just had to sit and camp a tree stump and wait for 20 minutes and even then, a member of another group or faction could just take it from you.

I came back in the evening when conquest was on hoping the number of people there would be better, but the place was busy still. I waited till midnight.. the same again. I came back at 4am and people are still there, but I figured, well if not hunting for it now, then when? So I sat and camped a stump for a good 20 minutes. Nothing. Figured maybe I had got the stump wrong and moved off to search others, but they were either just bloomed, or being camped. Finally, finally I found one that was not camped, and I sat in for the wait. Had to be at least 10-15 minutes waiting, a couple of guardians came over.. tree bloomed.. bam, they took it. Nothing I could do about it. So much time spent waiting and for nothing, taken by another player. Rage and frustration ensued.

It is one thing to work for an achievement, but when you work, there is meant to be a reward, and there is no reward here for the hours spent looking for these blasted mushroomed trees, and the actual reward for the quest does not reflect the amount of time spent trying to do it. The spawn time is too long, people just camp them and other can take the one you have been camping. If I wanted to be pitted against other players during quests I would have joined Bloodiron or some other pvp shard. But I don't.

There are three things wrong with this quest:
* Slow spawn rate. 15-20 minutes is ridiculous. 2-5 minutes would be better
* Increase in the number of stumps able to be used
* Make the growing of the stump an area affect, so that groups and factions are not brought into it, and people finding a stump that is available do not take the quest item away from another person/s.

I hope that Trion puts out a hotfix to change the quest soon. Something needs to be done as its put a somewhat sour taint on the start of the world event.

Did the little scavenger hunt yesterday, it was good fun. Started the great scavenger hunt today, and it's very demoralising. I've been running around Scarwood for 3 hours and have only found 2 stumps so far. There aren't even that many people there, however the people who are there seem to be camping the known spawn points.
I know that Scavenger hunts are meant to be challenging, but this isn't so. The problem isn't finding the stumps as such, it's more the fact there are no stumps to be found due to such a slow respawn time.